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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm not a dev. What's a mirror? Sorry for being uncool.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Basically a copy of the infrastructure, so that you can switch over, if the first/main instance is lost (by a government, for example).

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hate when the government loses my servers :(

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 10 months ago

Literally a server standing by and doing the same thing as the other by being a backup in case the 1st gets taken down.

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

When the fuck did that happen? We're cool now?